Irish priest behind one of largest sex abuse settlements in State deported from Brazil

Irish Times Wednesday 28th December, 2011

PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs CorrespondentAN IRISH priest responsible for what is believed to be one of the largest ever settlements in a clerical child sex abuse case in the State has been deported to England from Brazil, where he had spent the past eight years.Fr Peter Kennedy (72), a priest with the St Patrick’s Missionary Society at K...

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